St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1887-01-01

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that is. they grow in a straight.
cleanly marked line across the lip, and
the ends are sharply defined? 1t is the
truth, and another point is that there
are rarely more than fifty vigorous
hairs in female mustache. so that few
of them can not be removed in five or
six sittings. had case the other day
of allaying the Inflammation occas onetl
by some charlatan endeavOring to up
root . whole mustache of thirty We
hairs at a single sitting. He did It, but
the punishment gave the young lady a
wounded upper lip, which will be rough
and more or less SCARED for the next
six months.
the electrical treatment, preferring the
depilatories. which. while not always
permanent in their effects, will remove
an entire mustacc at one application
without pain. and when continued will
generally kill the papilla in time. Let
me show you how they do their perfect
work on the back of your hand"
With . small camel's hair brush the
doctor applied watery liquid to spot
as large as a silver half-dollar on the
hairy back of the visitors hand II
grew warm. almost hot. for moment.
and the hair began to shrivel up and
gradually disappear. In few minutes
the spot was dry. all the hair had disap-
peared and the place was rs smooth as
the center of ones palm.
''Science is great thing. young man.
That acid is composed of a number Of
caustics. and in sufficient quantity will
eat hole through ones hand; but
when applied according to directions il
merely dissolvcs the hair. rs you have
seen. In fact, in the present stage Ol
the worlds progress it is not necessary
for the fair.sex to suffer with any blem-
ishes. Wrinkles disappear. freckles
fade. pock-marks fill mp. b'rth-marks
are blanched. and even red noses made
white by the action of acids skillfully
applied"
..Has Sc 'encc turned its attention to
the alcoholic nose?"
Yes, sir; but you must not connect
all red noses with the abuse of stimuli
lants. The corset lace is quite as effec-
tive an agent in inducing abnormal
rubicundity of the nasal Organ"-the
doctor paused here while the visitor
made note of the phrase on his shirt
cuff. "The corset lace. say, is quite
as effective an agent in producing red
noses as the whisky bottle. In most
cases a red nose is the work of years,
and it is generally accompanied by .
thickening Of the skin, which some
times rounds out in spotA producing
the bulbous blossom. In all cases the
blood-vessels upon the surface are stim-
ulated and enlarged. and it is to the re-
ducti0n of these vessels. both in size
and number, that our treatment is
directed. The acid checks the flow of
the blood which gives the color BY
shrinking the veins.
'.Now about freckles. warts and
moles. They are all removed by pretty
much the same treatment; and while
the instruments look simple enough,
being nothing but . bottle Of water
looking acid and a camel s-hair brush.
in unskillful hands they are like money
in q spendthrift's pocket-bound to
burn. In the nature Of things an acid
which will eat away wart or bleach
out the cOloring matter which Is i'm
bedded between the outer skin and the
cuts vera, or true skin, beneath, in .
mole or freckle. must be powerful; but
like strong horse. when rightly di-
rected. it is only powerful for good
The idea Of removing freckles or tan
with baths of buttermilk or other mild
agents is only less ridiculous than the
charming away of warts with bits of
knotted string. And yet there are 9th
erwise sensible people who believe in
both these remedies
warts are merely engagements of
of the tissue, each containing . single
blood-vessel, which feeds it, while moles
arc sometimes engagements, in fact.
small tumors, and sometimes merely
discolorations. Freckles and moth
patches belong to the same family as
the noles, and when the latter are not
accompanied BY the tumor phase all are
treated allke-that ID. BY the applica-
ton of an acid which opens the
pores and causes the color
ing matter to exude and dry up.
Wrinkles. pock-marks and scars are all
cured by the application Of an oil which.
with gentle rubbing BY the hands.
breaks up the hard tissue forming them,
starts the circulation Of blood through
the parts. and thus builds up healthy
growth Of muscle which fills up the de-
pressionA
..All these things are ~ simple ~ A,
B and C, and when we learn how to do
it it is Just IS easy to remove blemish
from the skin of . lady face rs it would
be to remove the same stain or blemish
from piece of cloth or paper. Take .
birth-mark, for instance. There are
hundreds Of persons moving about the
city, disfigured with purple or scarlet
blotches on their faces. who imagine il
is necessary that their lives should be
made miserable BY these blemishes,
when little thought ought to teach
them that bleaching is simple process.
whether applied to broom-straw or the
human skin. "-CSncinnati Enquirer.
NlA0ARA'S FATE.
A Cataatrophe which Wn Occar Twenty.
Two Hundred YsaEs Hence.
Prof. woodward. q Washington. de-
clares that in about 2. 200 years the rock
over which the falls now flow. at